ABIES ORIENTALIS.
IDENTIFICATION.—SAPIN US, Bcllonius, De Arbor. Canif. Rcfin., p. 27 (1553).
ELATE TRAPEZUNTICA, Tourn. Voy., ii. p. 104 (1717).
ABIES ORIENTALIS, folio brevi et tetragono fructu minimo et deorfum inflexo 1 Tournefort, Coroll. (ed. 3), p. 41 (1719).
PINUS ORIENTALIS, Linroeus, S fee., p. 1421 (1753); Bieberftein, Fl. Tour. Caucus., iii. p. 624 (1819); Lambert. Genus
Pinns (ed. 2), i. p. 49 (1837-38); Steven, Bull. Sac. Nat. Mofc. p. 48 (1838); Antoine, Conif., p. 89 (1840-46); Endlicher,
Syn. Conif., p. 116 (1847).
ABIES ORIENTALIS, Poiret, Diet., vi. p. 518 (1804) ; Loudon, Encycl. of Trees, p. 1029 (1842) ; Jaubert and Spacli, Plant.
Orient., i. p. 30 (1842); Lindley and Gordon, in Journ. Hort, See , v p, 212 (1850); Knight, Syn. Com/., p. 36 (I1S50) ;
Lawfon, Abietineec, p. 31 (1851); Gordon, Pinetum, p. 8 (1858).
PICEA ORIENTALIS, Carrière, Traité Gén. des Com/., p. 244 (1855).
ENGRAVINGS.—Cone and Leaves.—Lambert, Genus Pinns (toc. cit.). t. 31, fig. A (exclus. relie/, icon.)-, Antoine, Conif. (toc. cit.), t. 35, fig. 1 ;
Loudon, Encycl. of Trees [toc. cit.), figs. 1924, 1925 ; Jaubert and Spach (toc. cit.), t 14.
Specific Characters.—Abies ramulis itrictis, foliis fubtetragonis obtufis, ftrobilis nutantibus fubcylindricis
elongato pyriformibus, fquamis rhombeo-ovatis apice rotundatis, bracteis fubrotundatis apice truncatis
marginibus fortiter laciniatis, feminibus alis fat expanfis.
Habitat circa Trapezuntum et in fummis Imeritia: montibus in Mingrelia fupcriore, necnon inter
Guriel et Montes Adfcharienfes.
A lofty tree of the fize and appearance of the Common Spruce. The leaves crowded very clofely
round the branchlets, and adpreffed to them [fig. 1]. The bark brown, pale-fawn coloured on the younger
branchlcts, which are thickly fpirally fet with pulvini all round. (See fig. 2, which is a reprefentation of
the branchlets magnified three times.) At the bafe of each branchlet there is a circlet of dark brown
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